Cantonese Speecon database

Base de données Speecon cantonais

ID:

ELRA-S0287

The Cantonese Speecon database is divided into 2 sets:1) The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult Cantonese speakers (273 males, 277 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place).2) The second set comprises the recordings of 50 child Cantonese speakers (22 boys, 28 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room).

This database is partitioned into 29 DVDs (first set) and 4 DVDs (second set).The speech databases made within the Speecon project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the Speecon format and content specifications. Each of the four speech channels is recorded at 16 kHz, 16 bit, uncompressed unsigned integers in Intel format (lo-hi byte order). To each signal file corresponds an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

Each speaker uttered the following items (over 290 items for adults and over 210 items for children):

Calibration data:- 6 noise recordings- The “silence word” recording

Free spontaneous items (adults only):5 minutes (session time) of free spontaneous, rich context items (story telling) (an open number of spontaneous topics out of a set of 30 topics)

The following age distribution has been obtained:- Adults: 233 speakers are between 15 and 30, 234 speakers are between 31 and 45, 83 speakers are over 46.- Children: 26 speakers are between 8 and 10, and 24 speakers are between 11 and 14.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.